Re: Monitoring UPS battery with SNMP

2010-05-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Daniel Bareiro put forth on 5/5/2010 9:28 PM: Perhaps although already there is some client (Debian package) which contemplates all these considerations and I'm trying to re-invent the wheel :-) Does the net module in the Liebert happen to support syslog? If so, your job may prove a bit

`Battery is now fully charged:' why do I receive this after having unplugged the cable?

2010-04-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, I receive the message `Battery is now fully charged' on my Asus EEE 1000HE under Debian Lenny 5 w. kernel 2.26-2-686, but only once I have unplugged the cable? For example, the PC might be on AC power for 15 hours, and say nothing. If I then unplug the cable, it tells me that the battery

Re: `Battery is now fully charged:' why do I receive this after having unplugged the cable?

2010-04-13 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:15:42 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I receive the message `Battery is now fully charged' on my Asus EEE 1000HE under Debian Lenny 5 w. kernel 2.26-2-686, but only once I have unplugged the cable? For example, the PC might be on AC power for 15 hours, and say nothing

Re: `Battery is now fully charged:' why do I receive this after having unplugged the cable?

2010-04-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: It looks not so normal to me. I am reassured. But looking at Debian wiki for EEE systems it seems to be a known issue with power management: *** http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Configure#Powermanagement Power management On some models, the battery info

Re: `Battery is now fully charged:' why do I receive this after having unplugged the cable?

2010-04-13 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:46:43 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: *** http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Configure#Powermanagement Power management On some models, the battery info is not very precise (jumps from 10% to 100%, no rate information, etc.). Apparently

Re: `Battery is now fully charged:' why do I receive this after having unplugged the cable?

2010-04-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: And your BIOS version is the latest available? :-? Sure! -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. From those to whom much is given, much is expected.

Re: `Battery is now fully charged:' why do I receive this after having unplugged the cable?

2010-04-13 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:54:56 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: And your BIOS version is the latest available? :-? Sure! Ouch! O:-) How about trying with debian-eeepc-devel¹ list? Maybe they provide more information about this as they develop the tools for these specific

Re: `Battery is now fully charged:' why do I receive this after having unplugged the cable?

2010-04-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: ¹ http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel I try it! Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. You find out who

Re: Battery status is not the same using two different sources of info

2010-03-21 Thread Camaleón
El Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:23:32 +0100, Merciadri Luca escribió: That is also what I think. However, these are out-of-the-box applets, and they should consequently be compatible (i.e. give the same results). The output of your command is the same as the info box you can see on my screenshot. I

Re: Battery status is not the same using two different sources of info

2010-03-21 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: El Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:23:32 +0100, Merciadri Luca escribió: That is also what I think. However, these are out-of-the-box applets, and they should consequently be compatible (i.e. give the same results). The output of your command is the same as the info box you can see

Re: Battery status is not the same using two different sources of info

2010-03-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:04:37 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: Maybe this is something worth to report it. And when you put the cursor on the other applet, does it show exactly the same remaining time? Yes :-) If you carefully look the picture I sent, you will see the

Re: Battery status is not the same using two different sources of info

2010-03-21 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:04:37 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: Maybe this is something worth to report it. And when you put the cursor on the other applet, does it show exactly the same remaining time? Yes :-) If you carefully

Battery status is not the same using two different sources of info

2010-03-20 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am using GNOME with kernel 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem. I am on an ASUS EEE 1000-HE netbook, with some fresh battery. Here is a first screenshot: http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/dif_bat_status.png. You can see, at the right

Re: Battery status is not the same using two different sources of info

2010-03-20 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:29:58 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: (...) You can see, at the right, at the top of the screen, that 4h. and 1 min. are still available from the battery. Now, putting the mouse on the green battery gives 3h30 min. left. Why is there such a difference on both indicators

Re: Battery status is not the same using two different sources of info

2010-03-20 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:29:58 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: (...) You can see, at the right, at the top of the screen, that 4h. and 1 min. are still available from the battery. Now, putting the mouse on the green battery gives 3h30 min. left. Why is there such a difference

ACPI - pas de /proc/acpi/battery

2010-02-24 Thread VINZIO Maxime
Bonjour, Je cherchais à récupérer le % de chargement de ma batterie sur mon asus, la commande acpi me semblant peu configurable, je me suis mis à la recherche de mon /proc/acpi/battery. Surprise ! Je n'ai pas le répertoire battery, je n'ai rien trouvé sur le net à propos de cela, acpi est bien

Re: ACPI - pas de /proc/acpi/battery

2010-02-24 Thread C. Mourad Jaber
On 24/02/2010 16:28, VINZIO Maxime wrote: Bonjour, Je cherchais à récupérer le % de chargement de ma batterie sur mon asus, la commande acpi me semblant peu configurable, je me suis mis à la recherche de mon /proc/acpi/battery. Surprise ! Je n'ai pas le répertoire battery, je n'ai rien

Re: ACPI - pas de /proc/acpi/battery

2010-02-24 Thread VINZIO Maxime
Avec la commande acpi (package du même nom) tu devrais trouver ton bonheur... $ acpi Battery 0: Full, 100% Je cherche à récupérer *uniquement* le pourcentage, un acpi |cut -N pourrait le faire dans ce cas mais acpi renvoit différente chaine de caractère en fonction de l'état de la batterie

Re: ACPI - pas de /proc/acpi/battery

2010-02-24 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/02/2010 16:28, VINZIO Maxime wrote: Bonjour, Bonjour, la recherche de mon /proc/acpi/battery. Surprise ! Je n'ai pas le répertoire battery, je n'ai rien trouvé sur le net à propos de cela, acpi est bien installé, acpid également, enfin

Re: ACPI - pas de /proc/acpi/battery

2010-02-24 Thread François TOURDE
Le 14664ième jour après Epoch, VINZIO Maxime écrivait: Je suis alors tombé sur ce topichttp://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=1809qui est inexploitable du fait de l'absence du fameux répertoire /proc/acpi/battery/ J'ai également essayer de jeter un coup d'oeil dans /sys mais je n'ai rien

Re: ACPI - pas de /proc/acpi/battery

2010-02-24 Thread VINZIO Maxime
Regarde plutôt dans /sys avec les nouveaux noyaux. Peut-être /sys/class/power_supply/ mais je n'ai pas de portable sous la main pour vérifier. Amicalement David Parfait ! C'est bon, maintenant il me suffit de récupérer dans /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/ mon ./energy_full et mon

Re: ACPI - pas de /proc/acpi/battery

2010-02-24 Thread Sébastien NOBILI
Salut, Le mercredi 24 février 2010 à 17:02, VINZIO Maxime a écrit : | Je cherche à récupérer *uniquement* le pourcentage, un acpi |cut -N pourrait | le faire dans ce cas mais acpi renvoit différente chaine de caractère en | fonction de l'état de la batterie | | ie : | Battery 0: Charging

Re: ACPI - pas de /proc/acpi/battery

2010-02-24 Thread VINZIO Maxime
Tu as pensé à ce merveilleux outil qu'est sed ? # acpi | sed s/^Battery.* \([0-9]\+%\).*/\1/ Ça devrait faire ton bonheur, non ? Je découvre :), merveilleux en effet. Très bien :) j'ai réponse à toute mes interrogations même s'il à fallu voir quelques doublons. Je vais pouvoir terminer la

Re: ACPI - pas de /proc/acpi/battery

2010-02-24 Thread Ebling Andreas
/power_supply/BAT0/ mon ./energy_full et mon ./energy_now, de faire une petite division (fois 100 pour le pourcentage :)) et c'est terminé ! Merci beaucoup David ! Maxime coin:-/home/bling182% acpi | cut -d' ' -f 4 100% chezmoicamarche.org Et c'est merveilleux, meme avec Battery 0: Charging, 73

Re: ACPI - pas de /proc/acpi/battery

2010-02-24 Thread VINZIO Maxime
coin:-/home/bling182% acpi | cut -d' ' -f 4 100% chezmoicamarche.org Et c'est merveilleux, meme avec Battery 0: Charging, 73%, 00:28:17 until charged Battery 0: Full, 100% Battery 0: Discharging, 74%, 04:37:36 remaining ca fonctionne toujours. echo Battery 0: Discharging, 74%, 04:37:36

Re: motherboard battery low?

2009-12-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:27:11 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I have a 4.5 year old Epox 8VTAI mobo whose battery has never been changed. I just noticed that the time does not step when the power is off. Is that because the battery is low on power? What changes, BIOS time

Re: motherboard battery low?

2009-12-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom put forth on 12/18/2009 12:27 PM: Hi, I have a 4.5 year old Epox 8VTAI mobo whose battery has never been changed. I just noticed that the time does not step when the power is off. Is that because the battery is low on power? I don't suppose

motherboard battery low?

2009-12-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I have a 4.5 year old Epox 8VTAI mobo whose battery has never been changed. I just noticed that the time does not step when the power is off. Is that because the battery is low on power? I don't suppose there is a way to change the battery without losing all the BIOS settings. What

Re: motherboard battery low?

2009-12-18 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:27:11 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I have a 4.5 year old Epox 8VTAI mobo whose battery has never been changed. I just noticed that the time does not step when the power is off. Is that because the battery is low on power? What changes, BIOS time or operating

Re: motherboard battery low?

2009-12-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 18, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I have a 4.5 year old Epox 8VTAI mobo whose battery has never been changed. I just noticed that the time does not step when the power is off. Is that because the battery is low on power? I don't suppose there is a way to change

Re: motherboard battery low?

2009-12-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Hugo Vanwoerkom put forth on 12/18/2009 12:27 PM: Hi, I have a 4.5 year old Epox 8VTAI mobo whose battery has never been changed. I just noticed that the time does not step when the power is off. Is that because the battery is low on power? I don't suppose there is a way to change

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-13 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
lee wrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:45:31PM +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: no need of lithium at all. What's the alternative? Have they found another resource to make batteries from? I wanted to say, that they have decided to go for battery production, so that you and me have to pay

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-13 Thread Mark Allums
What's the alternative? Have they found another resource to make batteries from? I read some blurbs and articles about work with zinc-air. Apparently, some of the problems with zinc-air have been solved. Zinc-air is known to have an energy density about twice that of lithium, but is still

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 02:49:28PM +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote: On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Klistvud wrote: My sister has an even older Dell (it must be at least 5 or 6 years) which still lasts just under an hour on the *original* battery. In the meantime, I've had at least 3 or 4 batteries in two

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-12 Thread lee
that the rate of new battery inventions has been increasing dramatically. Then why aren't there dramatically better batteries available yet? When I was a child, I had an RC car, and it would run about 1/2 hour before the battery was empty. Then it would take so long to recharge that you could use it only

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-12 Thread Chris Jones
, and they always are. If you look at the history of batteries you will note that the rate of new battery inventions has been increasing dramatically. Then why aren't there dramatically better batteries available yet? When I was a child, I had an RC car, and it would run about 1/2 hour before

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-11 Thread lee
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 06:19:56PM +0100, Klistvud wrote: Would you ever buy a car -- or even a mobile phone -- where the spare/ replacement battery cost 14% of the entire car/phone retail price? Say you got the cheapest Clio or Fiesta for just under 10.000€, but would have to pay over 1400

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-11 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Klistvud wrote: My sister has an even older Dell (it must be at least 5 or 6 years) which still lasts just under an hour on the *original* battery. In the meantime, I've had at least 3 or 4 batteries in two different Compaqs die on me. She never unplugged the battery in all

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-11 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
lee wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 06:19:56PM +0100, Klistvud wrote: Would you ever buy a car -- or even a mobile phone -- where the spare/ replacement battery cost 14% of the entire car/phone retail price? Say you got the cheapest Clio or Fiesta for just under 10.000€, but would have

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-11 Thread lee
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:45:31PM +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: no need of lithium at all. What's the alternative? Have they found another resource to make batteries from? So price is what the company decides to put as price. So? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-11 Thread John Jason Jordan
reserves in Siberia and China, and some in Nevada, USA. If you look at the history of batteries you will note that the rate of new battery inventions has been increasing dramatically. Since 1950 the number of new technologies patented has increased, each decade bringing more new inventions than

[OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-10 Thread Klistvud
Howdie, fellow Debianites! Just today I received the spare battery I had ordered from an online store; the old one had died on me -- as batteries are likely to do, eventually. It's an original HP spare battery for my HP Compaq 6715b and it cost just under 84€ with shipping and all. Now

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-10 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Thursday 10 December 2009 17:22:46 Klistvud wrote: Howdie, fellow Debianites! Just today I received the spare battery I had ordered from an online store; the old one had died on me -- as batteries are likely to do, eventually. It's an original HP spare battery for my HP Compaq 6715b

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-10 Thread Klistvud
parts. But buying a spare battery for your car will hardly set you back for 14% of the total cost of a new car. It seems I may have phrased my question awkwardly, so let's try to rephrase it: Would you ever buy a car -- or even a mobile phone -- where the spare/ replacement battery cost 14

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-10 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 10. 12. 2009 16:53:49 je Paul Cartwright napisal(a): one of the things I was told to do, was while you run the laptop on AC power, to unplug your battery.. this keeps it from being constantly in the CHARGE mode, and maybe helps it last longer.. just a thought I thought

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-10 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:22:46 +0100, Klistvud wrote: Howdie, fellow Debianites! Just today I received the spare battery I had ordered from an online store; the old one had died on me -- as batteries are likely to do, eventually. It's an original HP spare battery for my HP Compaq 6715b

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Klistvud wrote: Agreed, it's spare parts. But buying a spare battery for your car will hardly set you back for 14% of the total cost of a new car. It seems I may have phrased my question awkwardly, so let's try to rephrase it: Would you ever buy a car -- or even a mobile phone -- where

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-10 Thread owens
Original Message From: quotati...@aliceadsl.fr To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery? Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:19:56 +0100 Dne, 10. 12. 2009 16:40:39 je Thierry Chatelet napisal(a): 1. This is spare parts. Unfortunately

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-10 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Thu December 10 2009, Klistvud wrote: to unplug your battery.. this keeps it from being constantly in the CHARGE mode, and maybe helps it last longer.. just a thought I thought this should be taken care of by the charging circuit in the laptop: if I'm not mistaken, the charging

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-10 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:26:30PM EST, ow...@netptc.net wrote: [..] The printer people do this all the time with the price (not cost) of replacement cartridges. I've seen cheap inkjets that go for around USD 35.00 and quality OEM replacement cartridges compatible with said printer at close

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
Would you ever buy a car -- or even a mobile phone -- where the spare/ replacement battery cost 14% of the entire car/phone retail price? Say Actually, with hybrid cars, the battery cost is pretty high as well. Batteries in laptops are very important: longer autonomy is an important selling

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-10 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 05:22:46PM +0100, Klistvud wrote: Howdie, fellow Debianites! Just today I received the spare battery I had ordered from an online store; the old one had died on me -- as batteries are likely to do, eventually. It's an original HP spare battery for my HP Compaq 6715b

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-10 Thread Alexey Salmin
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 05:22:46PM +0100, Klistvud wrote: Howdie, fellow Debianites! Just today I received the spare battery I had ordered from an online store; the old one had died on me -- as batteries are likely to do

Re: automatically reduce screen brightness with xfce when on battery

2009-07-19 Thread Peter Jordan
Celejar, Mon Jul 13 2009 21:04:03 GMT+0200 (CEST) : On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:06:56 +0300 Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: There used to be a control in xfce4-power-manager to allow resucing screen brightness when working on battery but it has been removed in recent versions. Any

Re: automatically reduce screen brightness with xfce when on battery

2009-07-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
on battery but it has been removed in recent versions. Any other way to achieve the same goal? You need xfce4-power-manager-plugins. I have it installed, it adds a button that allows changing the brightness, but it still doesn't allow automatically reducing the brightness when on battery

automatically reduce screen brightness with xfce when on battery

2009-07-13 Thread Micha Feigin
There used to be a control in xfce4-power-manager to allow resucing screen brightness when working on battery but it has been removed in recent versions. Any other way to achieve the same goal? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: automatically reduce screen brightness with xfce when on battery

2009-07-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,13.Jul.09, 13:06:56, Micha Feigin wrote: There used to be a control in xfce4-power-manager to allow resucing screen brightness when working on battery but it has been removed in recent versions. Any other way to achieve the same goal? You need xfce4-power-manager-plugins. Regards

Re: automatically reduce screen brightness with xfce when on battery

2009-07-13 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:07:14 +0300 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon,13.Jul.09, 13:06:56, Micha Feigin wrote: There used to be a control in xfce4-power-manager to allow resucing screen brightness when working on battery but it has been removed in recent versions. Any

Re: automatically reduce screen brightness with xfce when on battery

2009-07-13 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:06:56 +0300 Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: There used to be a control in xfce4-power-manager to allow resucing screen brightness when working on battery but it has been removed in recent versions. Any other way to achieve the same goal? I don't know

Re: Why does the laptop battery last longer with Windows than with Debian?

2009-05-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 6 May 2009 13:01:59 + Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il wrote: On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 03:45:17PM +0200, Kaixi Luo wrote: Hello, I'm a new Linux user (currently using Debian 5 testing) and I've noticed that the battery of my laptop used to last much longer with Windows Vista

Re: Why does the laptop battery last longer with Windows than with Debian?

2009-05-06 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 03:45:17PM +0200, Kaixi Luo wrote: Hello, I'm a new Linux user (currently using Debian 5 testing) and I've noticed that the battery of my laptop used to last much longer with Windows Vista (4 hours) than with Debian (2.5 hours). How's that possible?I mean, Debian

Re: Why does the laptop battery last longer with Windows than with Debian?

2009-05-06 Thread PierPaolo
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 15:01, Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il wrote: On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 03:45:17PM +0200, Kaixi Luo wrote: Hello, I'm a new Linux user (currently using Debian 5 testing) and I've noticed that the battery of my laptop used to last much longer with Windows Vista (4

Re: Why does the laptop battery last longer with Windows than with Debian?

2009-05-06 Thread PierPaolo
...sorry: On Th(...) Less memory may mean more disk activity as you need more swapping and have less memory to cache access to the disk. More disk activity probably increases the power consumption (if the disk can't rest). -- So can you put SWAP in a ram file ???

Re: Why does the laptop battery last longer with Windows than with Debian?

2009-05-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Some useful readings on the topic: How to reduce power consumption - ThinkWiki http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_reduce_power_consumption HowTo/CpuFrequencyScaling - Debian Wiki http://wiki.debian.org/HowTo/CpuFrequencyScaling Good power management practices

Re: Why does the laptop battery last longer with Windows than with Debian?

2009-05-03 Thread Kaixi Luo
Thank you all for the helpful suggestions. I'll take a look at the links you've provided. :) Kaixi

Why does the laptop battery last longer with Windows than with Debian?

2009-05-02 Thread Kaixi Luo
Hello, I'm a new Linux user (currently using Debian 5 testing) and I've noticed that the battery of my laptop used to last much longer with Windows Vista (4 hours) than with Debian (2.5 hours). How's that possible?I mean, Debian uses much less RAM (250 MB) than Vista (1 GB). Also

Re: Why does the laptop battery last longer with Windows than with Debian?

2009-05-02 Thread Nuno Magalhães
That's really weird... I suggest you post your laptop's maker/model and whether you installed any specific packages or just chose desktop when installing. Maybe some program's doing a lot of I/O or something. Maybe thi'll help you tweak your system: http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn

Re: Why does the laptop battery last longer with Windows than with Debian?

2009-05-02 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 02 May 2009 15:45:17 +0200, Kaixi Luo wrote: the battery of my laptop used to last much longer with Windows Vista (4 hours) than with Debian (2.5 hours). How's that possible? I bet that your Debian's power saving is not enabled by default. You've got to do some preliminary readings

Re: Why does the laptop battery last longer with Windows than with Debian?

2009-05-02 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Kaixi Luo kaixi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm a new Linux user (currently using Debian 5 testing) and I've noticed that the battery of my laptop used to last much longer with Windows Vista (4 hours) than with Debian (2.5 hours). How's that possible?I mean

Re: Why does the laptop battery last longer with Windows than with Debian?

2009-05-02 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 2 May 2009 15:45:17 +0200 Kaixi Luo kaixi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm a new Linux user (currently using Debian 5 testing) and I've noticed that the battery of my laptop used to last much longer with Windows Vista (4 hours) than with Debian (2.5 hours). How's that possible?I mean

sysfs not updating battery status

2009-04-11 Thread Lorenzo Masellis
Hi there, since a couple of weeks ago I started having problems with gnome-power-manager on my Acer TM2303Wlmi. It stopped updating the battery power level; it updated only on ac connect/disconnect. I traced the problem to the sysfs: it appears the sysfs power measurement is updated only after

Re: how make my laptop beep when low battery?

2009-03-28 Thread Michael Pobega
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 04:52:52AM -0700, paragasu wrote: i am using openbox , btw, how to do it in KDE? maybe the same can be done on openbox? I know a guy who did it using KPowerSave, I think he set up the rules and then let it run as a daemon. I'm not 100% sure though, so I'll have to ask

Re: how make my laptop beep when low battery?

2009-03-28 Thread Ken Irving
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:38:05PM -0700, paragasu wrote: I am using ACPI debian testing with linux kernel 2.6.26-1-686, the problem is, there is no warning when the battery is low. Is there a way to make a warning beep whenever my laptop battery low? On my system data on the battery state

Re: how make my laptop beep when low battery?

2009-03-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,26.Mar.09, 22:38:05, paragasu wrote: I am using ACPI debian testing with linux kernel 2.6.26-1-686, the problem is, there is no warning when the battery is low. Is there a way to make a warning beep whenever my laptop battery low? Yes, but this is usually done by some user tool. What

Re: how make my laptop beep when low battery?

2009-03-27 Thread paragasu
the battery is low. Is there a way to make a warning beep whenever my laptop battery low? Yes, but this is usually done by some user tool. What Desktop Environment are you using? (I can help with Xfce, but am not familiar with KDE or Gnome) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply

Re: how make my laptop beep when low battery?

2009-03-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
[top posting fixed] On Fri,27.Mar.09, 04:52:52, paragasu wrote: Yes, but this is usually done by some user tool. What Desktop Environment are you using? (I can help with Xfce, but am not familiar with KDE or Gnome) i am using openbox , btw, how to do it in KDE? maybe the same can be

how make my laptop beep when low battery?

2009-03-26 Thread paragasu
I am using ACPI debian testing with linux kernel 2.6.26-1-686, the problem is, there is no warning when the battery is low. Is there a way to make a warning beep whenever my laptop battery low? thank you -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: On battery power, so skipping file system check when in AC power

2009-02-24 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:19:12 +1300, Chris Bannister mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz wrote: And you know this from skipping filesystem check cos on battery message? No, but I did modify checkroot.sh script to report on_ac_power result to screen for debug purposes. And it's 1. But when

Re: On battery power, so skipping file system check when in AC power

2009-02-21 Thread Chris Bannister
- it seems, that it takes too long for system to figure out, that it is running on AC power. During that phase of startup it actually thinks, that it is running on battery. But when system is up, it thinks that it is running on AC power. And you know this from skipping filesystem check cos

Re: On battery power, so skipping file system check when in AC power

2009-02-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Clifford W. Hansen wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2009 09:15:46 Virgo Pärna wrote: Does anyone else also receives On battery power, so skipping file system check warning, when starting up a laptop with AC power connected? Especially in Lenny. -- Virgo Pärna

Re: On battery power, so skipping file system check when in AC power

2009-02-16 Thread Virgo Pärna
, that it is running on AC power. During that phase of startup it actually thinks, that it is running on battery. But when system is up, it thinks that it is running on AC power. -- Virgo Pärna virgo.pa...@mail.ee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: On battery power, so skipping file system check when in AC power

2009-02-15 Thread Chris Bannister
Sorry Virgo for not replying to your OP, as I've already deleted it. On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:03:56PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Virgo Pärna wrote: Does anyone else also receives On battery power, so skipping file system check warning, when starting up a laptop with AC power

Re: On battery power, so skipping file system check when in AC power

2009-02-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Virgo Pärna wrote: Does anyone else also receives On battery power, so skipping file system check warning, when starting up a laptop with AC power connected? Especially in Lenny. fine on Thinkpad T60p. johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: On battery power, so skipping file system check when in AC power

2009-02-14 Thread Clifford W. Hansen
On Saturday 14 February 2009 09:15:46 Virgo Pärna wrote: Does anyone else also receives On battery power, so skipping file system check warning, when starting up a laptop with AC power connected? Especially in Lenny. -- Virgo Pärna virgo.pa...@mail.ee I also get this when on battery

Re: On battery power, so skipping file system check when in AC power

2009-02-14 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:48:27 +0200, Clifford W. Hansen cliff...@nighthawk.co.za wrote: I also get this when on battery power, and it works fine when on AC power. I believe this is actually a good thing cause if you checking your disks and then run out of battery bad things(tm) can happen

Re: On battery power, so skipping file system check when in AC power

2009-02-14 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 07:15:46AM +, Virgo Pärna wrote: Does anyone else also receives On battery power, so skipping file system check warning, when starting up a laptop with AC power connected? Especially in Lenny. Is your ACPI working properly? There may be an ACPI problem that causes

On battery power, so skipping file system check when in AC power

2009-02-13 Thread Virgo Pärna
Does anyone else also receives On battery power, so skipping file system check warning, when starting up a laptop with AC power connected? Especially in Lenny. -- Virgo Pärna virgo.pa...@mail.ee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: On battery power, so skipping file system check when in AC power

2009-02-13 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/14 Virgo Pärna virgo.pa...@mail.ee: Does anyone else also receives On battery power, so skipping file system check warning, when starting up a laptop with AC power connected? Especially in Lenny. No, fine here on acer aspire. Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths

Re: Startup scripts of Debian Lenny don't perform file system check while on battery power

2009-01-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 05:20:53AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/13/09 04:40, elektra wrote: [snip] The startup scripts issue a warning of the kind Warning! Skipping file system check because the system is running on battery power - I don't know the exact wording - so the sysadmin has

Re: Startup scripts of Debian Lenny don't perform file system check while on battery power

2009-01-15 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 20:58 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 05:20:53AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/13/09 04:40, elektra wrote: [snip] The startup scripts issue a warning of the kind Warning! Skipping file system check because the system is running on battery

Re: Startup scripts of Debian Lenny don't perform file system check while on battery power

2009-01-15 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:30:45 +1300 Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz wrote: ... I'd quite like to have an option to opt-out of a fsck anyway; it's really annoying when I'm just turning it on for a few minutes to check my mail before I rush out the door. Richard There was a thread about

Re: Startup scripts of Debian Lenny don't perform file system check while on battery power

2009-01-15 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 22:18 -0500, Celejar wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:30:45 +1300 Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz wrote: ... I'd quite like to have an option to opt-out of a fsck anyway; it's really annoying when I'm just turning it on for a few minutes to check my mail before

on battery power, so skipping filesystem check (warning) · Lenny

2009-01-14 Thread jbc
kernel 2.6.26-1-686 Durante el proceso de carga del sistema, siempre que el portátil (acer aspire one) no está conectado a corriente, se lanza un mensaje que os transcribo: on battery power, so skipping filesystem check (warning) He consultado por ahí pero no hay aparente solución

Re: on battery power, so skipping filesystem check ( warning) · Lenny

2009-01-14 Thread Roberto Chacon
situación que me acontece en una Debian Lenny con kernel 2.6.26-1-686 Durante el proceso de carga del sistema, siempre que el portátil (acer aspire one) no está conectado a corriente, se lanza un mensaje que os transcribo: on battery power, so skipping filesystem check (warning) He

Re: on battery power, so skipping filesystem check (warning) · Lenny

2009-01-14 Thread Excalibur
transcribo: on battery power, so skipping filesystem check (warning) He consultado por ahí pero no hay aparente solución. Lo único que probé, por probar, fue deshabilitar acpi y cargar el sistema sin conseguir nada ¿Alguien tuvo la misma situación? Gracias por las respuestas

on battery power, so skipping filesystem check (warning) · Lenny

2009-01-13 Thread jbc
Hola. Les planteo una situación que me acontece en una Debian Lenny con kernel 2.6.26-1-686 Durante el proceso de carga del sistema, siempre que el portátil (acer aspire one) no está conectado a corriente, se lanza un mensaje que os transcribo: on battery power, so skipping filesystem check

Re: on battery power, so skipping filesystem check (warning) · Lenny

2009-01-13 Thread Pablo Zúñiga
transcribo: on battery power, so skipping filesystem check (warning) He consultado por ahí pero no hay aparente solución. Lo único que probé, por probar, fue deshabilitar acpi y cargar el sistema sin conseguir nada ¿Alguien tuvo la misma situación? Gracias por las respuestas que vayan dando

Re: on battery power, so skipping filesystem check (warning) · Lenny

2009-01-13 Thread Excalibur
one) no está conectado a corriente, se lanza un mensaje que os transcribo: on battery power, so skipping filesystem check (warning) He consultado por ahí pero no hay aparente solución. Lo único que probé, por probar, fue deshabilitar acpi y cargar el sistema sin conseguir nada ¿Alguien

Re: on battery power, so skipping filesystem check (warning) · Lenny

2009-01-13 Thread Pablo Zúñiga
Durante el proceso de carga del sistema, siempre que el portátil (acer aspire one) no está conectado a corriente, se lanza un mensaje que os transcribo: on battery power, so skipping filesystem check (warning) He consultado por ahí pero no hay aparente solución. Lo único que probé, por

Startup scripts of Debian Lenny don't perform file system check while on battery power

2009-01-13 Thread elektra
. Here is the story: After an apt-get update apt-get upgrade my system crashed three times while on battery power (supend to RAM which perfectly worked before wasn't properly waking up anymore) Subsequently my ext3 file system was corrupted in such a way that fsck.ext3 couldn't repair it anymore

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